by Dan Hoch | Jun 5, 2008
Orly Avitzur, a neurologist and e-Patient savvy doc, is now a medical editor at the Consumer’s Union/Consumer Reports. She’s written an excellent short review of some of the important developments in what we’ve come to call participatory medicine...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 2, 2008
Cross-posted (with additions) from my own blog 5/25/08 As I talk to people about “participatory medicine” and patient empowerment, I’ve needed to think out what that term really means when the rubber meets the road – when you (the patient) get...
by e-Patient Dave | May 6, 2008
e-Patients, alert! Time to participate in creating the lexicon. Ted Eytan MD is open to suggestions on his definition of Health 2.0 – he’ll be giving a talk soon and wouldn’t mind some honing, particularly shortening. Here’s the current...
by Susannah Fox | Apr 14, 2008
The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions released a very interesting report on “Health Care Consumerism” which looks at five “zones” of activity: traditional health services, self-directed care, alternative and non-conventional health services,...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 8, 2008
As I talk to people about participatory medicine and the e-patient principles, often the first belief to transform is that it’s inherently risky to “do your own googling” and inherently safer to just trust “the system” (or “your...
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